Means for producing animated shadowgraphs.



Pa ARTIGUE.

MEANS FOR PRODUCING ANIM/HEI) sHADoI/VGRAPHS.

APPLICATION FILED ALIG.23` I9I5.

@wanted Apr. Mi, 1918.

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MEANS non rnonucrncf Application illed August 5&3,

Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for.

Producing Animated Shadowgraphs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a process ci and articles for producing animated shadow graphs, and my object is to produce moving pictures of this character which can be produced commerciall stt-considerably less ein pense, time and la or than the well-known animated cartoons that require the services oi' anl artist and the maki of hundreds ci? drawings, in the production of a simple scenari An important part of my invention rcsides in projecting shadows oi persons, anin mals, or other objects on a suitable screen and then photographing said shadows while in motion with a` moving picture camera, the exposures bei-ng made on a sensitized nlm-with such rapidity that each successive picture shows the object in a slightly advanced position over that assumed in the preceding picture. The resulting 1T i is then used in 'a projector, which casts the pictures upon a screen in view of an audience in the usual manner. The screen on which the shadowgraphs are originaily produced has,preferably, painted or otherwise produced thereon a suitable background of trees, buildings, or other inanimate bodies.I

As the moving objects are in silhouette they conceal the underlying portions oif the background, so that said underlying por tions will not show through the .solid lolacl of the silhouette as it is projected on the screen. y

l'n the accompanying drawing which illustrates a sim 1e form of carrying out my invention, 1 esignates a room which is preferably closed to outside light in order to obtain shadowgraphs of' distinct outline., Said shadowgraphs can be produced by either animate or inanimate objects peciicction of Letters l scenery posed' between. the screen 2 and a suitable it, such :11er instance, as a represented as animated one mounted upon a tio-an 5, so that the of sow and around the objectls T outiine the saine on lche etreer l The s have a reiiecting surrace so shadowsrapli cast thereon `hed with a moving picadgacent the lamp 3, or said screen may" be ci? 'translucent or transparent so tl l show 'aneret'hr ness to be stationed c he cgi-po :from that on which The distance :'i

w euidcient distinct era 7,

side ci the screen he object is locateds lamp 3, the oloect i and *be determine the size ci the s7 @rejected on said screen1 i "round 8 may be painted wise e iced on the screen the character ci" the shadrcluced and as the latter are ""y so, they will non ci said bachactors and more or t is obvious that inten1B piet es be n rc-duced tor commercial invention, what Letters :Pat-

l v shadowgraphs sa g across the snedowgrapn Jc ion ci the screen,

be conoce gected thei owgrapli when proterrupt the unity ph, and .means e en with 'the shad- ,-'l .5. J. i a cnaracter as to` ne sliadcwgraph 6, 'will tending' across' the sbaowgmph-recevng portion of the screen, said scenery being out' such u character as to be concealed by the shadowgraph when projected thereon so as to uninterrupt the unity of the projected shadow/graph, of a support for the animated object, said support being transparent to the source of projecting hght whereby the same will not be profeete n the shadow graph In testimony whereof I ex my signature, in the. 'presence of two Witnesses.

i PERRE .LRTGUE. Witnessesz TF.. G.; Freomn, 

